Hunt v. Morton
Illinois Supreme Court
Oh 25tli Eebruary, 1853, appellant commenced an- action of forcible detainer, against appellee, before a justice of the peace of Pike county, to recover a piece of land in said county, described in an affidavit then filed before a justice.
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Oh 25tli Eebruary, 1853, appellant commenced an- action of forcible detainer, against appellee, before a justice of the peace of Pike county, to recover a piece of land in said county, described in an affidavit then filed before a justice. The affidavit states, in substance, that the appellee went into possession of the premises under his (appellee’s) father, and lived thereon with his father; that the father went into possession of the premises as the tenant of the appellant, ana that the time for which the premises were let to the father has expired; that after said time expired, notice for…
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, J.
Die whole of the merits of this ease resolve themselves into the inquiry, whether this was a tenancy at will, or from year to year. The father of the defendant was admitted into the possession of the premises in the fall of 1850, by an agent of the plaintiff, without any specific contract for the payment of rent, with the agreement that he might remain till spring. He continued in the possession of the premises with his family, of which the defendant was a member, during the year 1851, and that season cultivated and raised a crop on the land. Sometime during the winter of 1851-52, the father…
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